Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music (gah, my copy is falling apart and I can't even tell you what edition I have now- a few years ago, not -the- most recent) has a brief paragraph on Istel on p364. Born Mainz, died Miami (worked in Spain 1920–36, then left for England and in 1938 the USA.) Author of several biographies (on Cornelius, Wagner, Paganini) and books on comic opera, other things. Eric 12:19, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
